The two worked closely together as part of the Association of Francophone Mayors ( 1979 – 89 ), where Pelletier served as vice president.

Kassav ' ( Antillean Creole for a local dish made from cassava root ) is a Francophone zouk band formed in Paris in 1979.

In the immediate aftermath of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the MEK and the Tudeh Party at first chose to side with the clerics led by Ayatollah Khomeini against the liberals, nationalists and other moderate forces within the revolution.

The liberals and conservatives were both marginalized by the Somoza family, who formed the Nationalist Liberal Party, and continued to be out of power when the Somozas were overthrown by the Sandinista National Liberation Front in 1979.

* 1979: Dissident liberals formed ⇒ New Liberalism.

Born and raised in a Persian Jewish family in Tehran, Hakakian lived through the Iranian Revolution in 1979 and actively supported it along with other liberals.

Internal dissent within the government led Prime Minister Habré to send his forces against Malloum's national army in the capital in February 1979.

On July 19 1979, as Sandinista forces entered the capital, a U. S. plane disguised with Red Cross markings had evacuated remaining members of the National Guard to Miami.

After the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, on December 24, 1979, the Red Army occupied the capital.

A long period of transition occurred between 1979 and 1994, specifically in the capital, Koror, on the topic of relations with the United States.

By mid-April 1979, five guerrilla fronts opened under the joint command of the FSLN, including an internal front in the capital city Managua.

On April 11, 1979, Idi Amin was forced to quit the capital, Kampala, ending the Uganda-Tanzania War.

During the years that the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, was controlled by the Khmer Rouge regime of Pol Pot ( 1975 to 1979 ), the border disputes continued.

After the Islamic Revolution of 1979, Shiraz was re-established as the capital of Iranian Art and Culture.

After entering politics, he was successively named mayor of Alagoas ' capital Maceió in 1979 ( National Renewal Alliance Party ), elected a federal deputy ( Democratic Social Party ) in 1982, and eventually elected governor of the small Northeastern state of Alagoas ( Brazilian Democratic Movement Party ) in 1986.

The new flag was hoisted during the independence day celebrations in the capital, Tarawa, on July 12, 1979.

In North America, Renault formed a partnership with American Motors, lending AMC operating capital and buying a small percentage of the company in late 1979.

Subsequently simply known as Salisbury, the city was subsequently the capital of: Southern Rhodesia, from 1890 ; the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, from 1953 to 1963 ; Rhodesia, from 1963 to 1979 ; Zimbabwe Rhodesia, in 1979 ; and finally Zimbabwe, from 1980.

A proposal in June 1979 called for a new German Autonomous Republic within Kazakhstan, with a capital in Ermentau.

In 1979, Dawa moved its headquarters to Tehran, the capital of Iran.

In 1979 Janklow signed into law a bill reinstating capital punishment in South Dakota.

The company grew more and more during the 20th century, its capital in 1909 was about ¥ 100. 000, ¥ 6 million in 1938, ¥ 1. 5 billion in 1959 and ¥ 50 billion in 1979 ; nowadays, Takenaka Corporation is a multinational company with offices in 18 different countries.

Its capital, formerly at Sibasa, was moved to Thohoyandou ( which included the old Sibasa administrative district ) when Venda was declared independent in 1979.

Between 1975 and 1979, Dakhla was the province capital of the Mauritanian province of Tiris al-Gharbiyya, as Mauritania annexed portion of Western Sahara.

From 1970 to 1979 Viggers was chairman and director of banking, oil, hotels, textiles, pharmaceuticals, and venture capital companies.

The strike cut off fuel supplies to Tehran, the country's capital, contributing to the 1979 revolution in which the Shah was overthrown and Iran became an Islamic republic under an Ayatollah.

From 1976 to 1978, Delémont was the meeting place for the drafting of the cantonal constitution for the new canton, which was created 1 January 1979, with Delémont as its capital.

Ironically, it struck on the same day many residents stayed away from work in the Italian capital Rome fearing a supposed prophecy of a devastating tremor by a self-taught Italian seismologist who died in 1979.

He is renowned as an architect and urban planner, having been mayor of Curitiba, capital of Paraná, three times ( 1971 – 75, 1979 – 84 and 1989 – 92 ).

It merged with The Beezer on 24 February 1979.

Also in 1979, the European offices of Arthur Young merged with several large local European firms, which became member firms of Arthur Young International.

For example, in the lead-up to the 1979 election when Clark's riding was merged into the riding of another Tory MP during a redistribution of ridings, the other MP refused to step aside ( even though Clark was now party leader ), forcing Clark to run in nearby Yellowhead.

As one of the most stable WHA teams, the Whalers, along with the Edmonton Oilers, Quebec Nordiques, and Winnipeg Jets, were admitted to the NHL when the rival leagues merged in 1979.

In 1979, it merged with the neighboring town of Pickleville.

" Jackson's work focused on smooth balladry or disco-influenced dance music ; as an artist, he " pulled dance music out of the disco doldrums with his 1979 solo debut, Off the Wall, merged R & B with rock on Thriller, and introduced stylized steps such as the robot and moonwalk over the course of his career.

* Plug ( comics ), a short-lived British comic that ran from 1977 until 1979, when it merged with The Beezer, which featured a character from The Bash Street Kids called Plug as its main star

The UDC sued, as it had funded one third of the cost in 1935 when the building was constructed by Peabody College, which merged with Vanderbilt in 1979.

Comics that merged into The Beezer during its 37 year run were Cracker in 1976, and Plug in 1979.

( In 1979, Schweitzer licensed Brittany, France-based company Dufour Wing, which was later merged with Tabur Marine-the precursor of Bic Sport.

DRI was bought by McGraw-Hill in 1979, and merged with WEFA ( formerly Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates ) in 2001 to form Global Insight.

Wilson again established the Ministry in 1974, but later merged it into the Foreign Office once again: from 10 June 1975 to 8 October 1979 the Foreign Secretary served as Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Minister for Overseas Development in the cabinet, while the Minister for Overseas Development held the rank of Minister of State within the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

North Central merged with Southern Airways to form Republic Airlines in 1979 ; Republic then merged with Northwest in 1986.

Southern Airways became an important regional carrier at Memphis in the 1960s ; it merged into Republic Airlines in 1979.

As the New England Whalers were one of the most stable WHA teams, it was one of the four franchises admitted to the National Hockey League when the rival leagues merged in 1979.

She is a graduate of the Coventry College of Education ( merged with the University of Warwick in 1979 to become the Warwick Institute of Education ), where she gained a BEd in 1974.

Southern Airways was a regional airline operating in the United States from its founding by Frank Hulse in 1949 until 1979 when it merged with North Central Airlines to become Republic Airlines, which on October 1, 1986, became part of Northwest Airlines, which in 2008 became a part of Delta Air Lines.

On July 1, 1979, Southern merged with North Central Airlines to form Republic Airlines and the " Route of the Aristocrats " came to an end.

Bringing about the largest addition to the UFCW since its creation in 1979, on October 1, 1993, the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, and their 100, 000 members, merged with the UFCW, becoming the RWDSU District Council of the UFCW.

In 1979 it merged with the Services Electronic Research Laboratory ( SERL ) formerly at Baldock and the Signals Research and Development Establishment ( SRDE ) formerly at Christchurch.

Hoogkarspel was a separate municipality until 1979, when it was merged into the new municipality of Bangert, which has been renamed to Drechterland in 1980.

In 1979, Ilford and Leytonstone merged to become Leytonstone / Ilford, and in 1988 they absorbed the struggling Walthamstow Avenue to become Redbridge Forest ( although the name change was made only in the summer of 1989 ).

The two entities merged in 1979, with four of the six remaining teams — the Edmonton Oilers, Hartford Whalers, Quebec Nordiques and the Winnipeg Jets — joining the NHL.